Posted on 09/29/2005 10:28:04 AM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
My thoughts exactly.
I picture a bunch of strings running through the jungle attached to tin cans...
The "developing countries" can get bent sideways with a crowbar. The US developed the internet, we'll control it, thankyouVERYmuch!
And in a related story, people in Hell want ice water.
"I picture a bunch of strings running through the jungle attached to tin cans..."
All your Tin Cans belong to us... ;)
Firstly, democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what's for dinner.
Secondly, democracy is a non-sequitur. The Internet was invented by the US (DARPA, in fact,) and is therefore the property of the US. The US has the right to operate the Internet. Other countries have the right to create and/or use whatever alternative they prefer, and call it whatever they like (I'd suggest "PoliticizedNet.")
Cut 'em off, kick 'em out of the U.S. dorm too.
this was covered yesterday...but I will ask the question again...why is the US still in the UN and why is the UN still in the US?????
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492843/posts
Just in time for Halloween?
And the hubs and servers are interfaced through big spider webs.
Let them build their own,in about 800 years, if we help.
The Internet is not currently under US "control". There are a number of root name servers outside the US. Another matter altogether is the fact that there's a lot of content which can be legally hosted only in the US nowadays. For example, explicitly racist sites are banned in all of Western Europe and cannot be hosted on European web servers.
But developing nations, led by Brazil and Iran and supported by China, Cuba and others, are pressing for effective U.N. control.
Hold the &#%^ing meeting in Havana and put China in charge of the censoring.
"The existing structures have worked effectively to make the Internet the highly robust and geographically diverse medium that it is today," the State Department's bureau of economic and business affairs said in a recent report.
Which is what the developing world doesn't like and what the U.N. wants to effectively kill.
At preparatory talks currently underway in Geneva, countries are broadly split between Western countries supportive of existing institutions, and developing nations wanting to end U.S. control - a situation the Chinese envoy called "undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable."
Build your own damn version of the Internet and do it with your money.
Perhaps the spam I get from china will decrease somewhat.
The United States built the net. Everyone else can screw off.
My exact thoughts.
I disagree. Their new strategery should be: WWN.FU.BS = WorldWideNuts.FrigYou.BullShiite
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